Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo

[Jan Seeger <jan.seeger@thenybble.de>]

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On Sun, 16. Mar, Stroller spammed my inbox with 
>>
>> Well, I've heard otherwise. Use jffs2 or the CF card will wear out
>> prematurely.......
>
> I've "heard" lots about using flashdrives for filesystems, but I've never 
> read on a mailing list anything actually definitive on the subject. I find 
> many posts to be confused.

Yeah, it's the same here. I read an article in the german computer magazine c't,
and they said that they have tried to break USB sticks with repeated writes, but
have never succeeded (I think they ran 10000 writes, but I could be wrong).

So why not just buy a cheap USB stick for 10 € (or whatever), mount it sync and
write a little script which writes to a file, deletes it and begins again. Have
it record the number of times the file was written and check the consistency
after every write (md5sum perhaps?). Leave it running for a (long?) time and
then you will probably encounter errors (if there are...).

Actually, this sounds interesting^^
Regards,
Jan

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